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Friday News:

March 2, 2012 at 8:48 am
Filed under Basketball, Georgetown, Oregon State, Princeton, Today's News

Today's Game: Yale (19-7 / 9-3) vs. Princeton (16-11 / 7-4)
Location: Jadwin Gym - Princeton, NJ
Time: 7:00 pm ET
Radio: 103.3 fm WPRB
TV: N/A
Internet: goprincetontigers.com
Series History: Princeton leads 143-82.
Last meeting: Yale 58 Princeton 54 - 2/4/12

Yale Princeton
11-1 Home Record 7-2
7-6 Away Record 8-8
1-0 Neutral Record 1-1
101 RPI 99
143 Sagarin 118
138 Pomeroy 101
70.4 Points / Game 65.9
68.0 Points Allowed / Game 62.1
.442 FG% .451
.709 FT% .664
.355 3PT FG% .369
37.9 Rebounds / Game 33.2
11.7 Off. Rebounds / Game         8.9
+4.9 Rebounding Margin +0.1
13.9 Assists / Game 14.4
14.3 Turnovers / Game 12.4
4.2 Blocks / Game 3.7
Mangano: 18.5 Points Hummer: 16.2
Mangano: 9.7 Rebounds Hummer: 7.3
Willhite: 4.0 Assists Bray: 3.8
Willhite: 2.3 Steals Bray: 1.6
Mangano: 2.4 Blocks Hummer: 1.0
Sherrod: .524 FG% (Min: 10 FGM) Koon: .561
Morgan: .903 FT% (Min: 10 FTM) Saunders: .826
Salafia: .481 3PT FG% (Min: 10 3PTM)    Bray: .438

Brown vs. Penn - 7:00 pm ET
Harvard vs. Columbia - 7:00 pm ET
Dartmouth vs. Cornell - 7:00 pm ET

The Daily Princetonian and the Yale Daily News preview tonight's game.

Working on his NIT bracket projections, Big Apple Buckets sees the Tigers as the fifth-best team left out of this tournament according to Easiest Bubble Solver.

There is a First Person Singular from John Thompson III in the Washington Post.

Oregon State (16-13) led wire to wire in a 77-67 win over Utah.

Previous post: Coach Mitch Henderson - 3/1/12.
Next post: Bradley, Butch and Haarlow.

Stuart Schulman said,

March 2, 2012 @ 9:26 am

For those who are still (to use a phrase that's been in the news this week) Daydream Believers, you need to see these six things happen to get the Tigers into a 4-team playoff:

* Princeton must win its last three games against Yale, Brown and Penn.
* Harvard must lost to both Columbia and Cornell
* Assuming that Penn will beat Brown, Yale must beat Penn.

The patient is on life support, but there is a faint pulse.

Jon Solomon said,

March 2, 2012 @ 9:44 am

A friend calculated the odds as of Sunday at roughly 142-1 (or 0.70%) of all these results coming together as required.

Princeton getting to *and* winning a two round Ivy playoff is 666-1 against (0.15% chance).

There's another scenario which is 10,869-1 but I'll spare you...

Jon

Stuart Schulman said,

March 2, 2012 @ 12:29 pm

I'm guessing the 10,869 to 1 is if Penn loses to Brown so that the winner of Yale-Penn joins Harvard and Princeton in a 3-way playoff. You might get better odds with MegaMillions.

All the Tigers can do is take care of business. Sweeping the last 3 would certainly put them somewhere in the postseason--maybe the Insight.com Bowl?

Jon Solomon said,

March 2, 2012 @ 12:32 pm

I'm not willing to take a deep look at postseason possibilities until the regular season is complete, but compared to 2009-10, Princeton is in much better shape for making a tournament.

The Tigers' RPI when they reached the CBI was 132. If they take care of business this weekend they'll be at least 30 spots higher.

Jon

Stuart Schulman said,

March 2, 2012 @ 11:09 pm

In the words of the great philosopher Emily Litella, "Never mind."

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